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Two from Team Poison arrested in MI6 hotline phone hack Police in the UK have arrested two teens as part of an investigation into illegal recordings of conversations on Scotland Yard’s anti-terror hotline, which were later posted on Youtube . Two teenage boys aged 16 and 17 years have been arrested in the West Midlands in connection with an investigation into reports that hackers accessed Scotland Yard's anti-terror hotline. The hackers claimed to have carried out the cyber-attack in response to the alleged detention of innocent people on terrorism charges and the recent ruling to deport a number of terror suspects to the United States.  In the recording of the conversation, two people are heard discussing an earlier alleged attack in which a group calling themselves TeamPoison ( TeaMp0isoN ) apparently jammed the hotline by bombarding it with calls from computers . " We are confident the communication systems have not been breached and remain, as they always have been, s...

Samba remote code execution vulnerability, Patch Released ! Samba is an award-winning free software file, print and authentication server suite for Windows clients. The project was begun by Australian Andrew Tridgell. There is a serious remotely exploitable vulnerability in the Samba open-source software that could enable an attacker to gain root privileges without any authentication. The bug is in all versions of Samba from 3.0.x to 3.6.3, but has been fixed in Samba 3.6.4, which is the current stable release. The vulnerability was discovered by security researcher Brian Gorenc and an unnamed colleague, working for the Zero Day Initiative. The flaw, which is located in the code generator for Samba's remote procedure call (RPC) interface, makes it possible for clients on the network to force the Samba server to execute arbitrary code. Three new security releases (Samba 3.4.16, Samba 3.5.14, Samba 3.6.4) for currently supported versions have been issued over at samba.org/samb...

Legacy Native Malware in Angry Birds Space to pwn your Android A new malware threatens phones and tablets running Google's OS by hiding inside a copy of the popular game. Researchers at the mobile security firm Lookout identified the reworked malware as Legacy Native (LeNa), which poses as a legitimate app to gain unauthorized privileges on Android phones.  Under the appearance of a legitimate application, LeNa tricked users into allowing it access to information. " By employing an exploit, this new variant of LeNa does not depend on user interaction to gain root access to a device. This extends its impact to users of devices not patched against this vulnerability (versions prior to 2.3.4 that do not otherwise have a back-ported patch), " Lookout said in a blog post. In March, another Trojan appeared pretending to be legitimate Chinese game, The Roar of the Pharaoh . The malicious app appeared on the Google Play store, stealing users' data and money by sending S...

Phone based denial-of-service (DoS) attack on MI6 Anti-terrorism Agency The Hacking group, ' TeaMp0isoN ' said they targeted counter-terrorism officers at MI6 with a barrage of phone calls for a period of 24 hours, which meant nobody else could get through. By using a cleverly developed script, the hackers were able to make calls to the agency's offices for 24 hours non-stop, basically launching a phone-based denial-of-service (DOS) attack. " The script is based on the Asterisk software and uses a SIP protocol to phone ," TriCk told us. " Everytime they picked up the phone the server would play a robot voice which said 'teamp0ison' ." It said the attacks were motivated by the recent decision at the European Court of Human Rights that said Babar Ahmad, Adel Abdel and other suspected terrorists could be extradited to the United States, Huffingtonpost Reported . Trick also released what he claimed was the audio of the moment called the number and spoke to MI6 officers perso...

Extreme GPU Bruteforcer - Crack passwords with 450 Million passwords/Sec Speed Extreme GPU Bruteforcer , developed by InsidePro is a program meant for the recovery of passwords from hashes of different types, utilizing the power of GPU which enables reaching truly extreme attack speed of approx 450 Millions passwords/Second . The software supports hashes of the following types: MySQL, DES, MD4, MD5, MD5(Unix), MD5(phpBB3), MD5(Wordpress), NTLM, Domain Cached Credentials, SHA-1, SHA-256, SHA-384, SHA-512 and many others. The software implements several unique attacks, including mask and hybrid dictionary attacks, which allow recovering even the strongest passwords incredibly fast. Utilizing the power of multiple graphics cards running simultaneously (supports up to 32 GPU), the software allows reaching incredible search speeds of billions of passwords per second! Type hashes average speed (Using NVIDIA GTS250): MD5 420 000 000 n / a MySQL 1.08 billion n / a MD4 605 000 000 n / ...

Iran replacing Google, Hotmail with its own internal search engines and email services Iran has denied the report that it plans to cut itself off from the Internet. In a statement, the ministry said " The report is in no way confirmed by the ministry ". It added that it was " completely baseless ," and that it served only, " the propaganda wing of the West and providing its hostile media with a pretext emanating from a baseless claim ". Iranian minister for Information and Communications Technology Reza Taghipour was reported to have said that Iran plans to disconnect itself from the Internet and replace popular services like Google, Yahoo, and Hotmail with homegrown, Iranian services. They also claim that a system is in beta testing which includes a search engine called " Ya-Haq ", which directly translates as "calling God". The government is already accepting applications for Iran Web Mail accounts , which require you to enter a first and last name, postal add...

Homeland Security hacking into gaming consoles to obtain user data The U.S. government has hired a California-based company to hack into video game consoles, such as Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, to watch criminals, especially child predators, and learn how to collect evidence against them. The U.S. government has awarded a $177,000 contract to Obscure Technologies to develop tools that can be used to extract data from video games systems. The $177,000 contract with Obscure Technologies of San Rafael, Calif., is being executed by the U.S. Navy on behalf of the Department of Homeland Security because of the Navy's expertise in the field, officials said. Anyone who has ever played a few games of Call of Duty or Halo online knows that communities like Xbox Live aren't exactly models of good behavior. But the federal government believes the occasional bursts of profanity may not be the worst of what's going on according with consoles, and it wants a way to dig deeper. In explaining t...

FlashBack Checker - Tool Detects Flashback Mac Malware A Mac developer has posted a tool that detects a Flashback malware infection on Apple's computers. Last week we posted about,  More than 600000 Macs system infected with Flashback Botnet . That's slightly more than 1 percent of all 45 million Macs in the world still a relatively small number, but a worrisome one for Mac users, as the tally of infected machines continues to grow. FlashBack Checker - 38KB tool was created by Juan Leon , a software engineer at Garmin International, the Kansas-based company best known for its GPS devices. When Flashback Checker is run, it displays "No signs of infection were found" or provides additional information if it does detect changes the malware has made to the Mac. According to Dr. Web, the Russian security company that was the first firm to quantify Flashback infections, nearly 2% of all Macs have been hit by the malware.  Dr. Web used a different technique to detect...

Anonymous target USTelecom and TechAmerica for supporting Cybersecurity Bill Two technology trade associations said they were targeted by the hacker-activist group Anonymous as it singled out supporters of proposed legislation to improve U.S. cybersecurity. The hacker group Anonymous claimed responsibility for taking down the websites of USTelecom and Tech America, which both back the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act of 2011. Both sites remained unreachable as of Monday afternoon. The attacks began yesterday when users were unable to log onto the sites. USTelecom represents telecom companies, including AT&T, Verizon, and CenturyLink; and TechAmerica's members include tech companies such as IBM, Microsoft, and Apple. A Twitter account called @Anon_Central yesterday called the Rogers bill " draconian " and posted a link to groups and companies supporting the legislation.[ See List here ] Anonymous posted a YouTube video showing USTelecom's site down S...

Anonymous plans to take down Great Firewall of China Anonymous plans to launch more attacks on Chinese government Web sites in an effort to highlight corruption and push for human rights improvements. While they managed to deface well over 500 sites we are now hearing they aren't finished yet and have even more plans for the Chinese government coming soon, and bigger targets. The group used the Twitter account " Anonymous China " to publicise the attacks, posting links to data files that contained passwords and other personal information from the hacked websites. This comes just days after all the attacks last week that even had messages warning of the downfall of the Chinese government. The attacks are part of a bigger plan according to Anonymous hacker " f0ws3r " who told Reuters that the group is hoping to take down the " Great Firewall of China " A recent tweet from the Anonymous China Twitter feed confirms the group's plans. They claim to have hundreds of translat...

TigerBot - SMS Controlled Android Malware Stealing Information A new form of Android malware controlled via SMS messages has been discovered and the malware can record phone calls, upload the device's GPS location, and reboot the phone, among other things. Researchers at NQ Mobile, working alongside researchers at North Carolina State University, have discovered this Android malware called "TigerBot", differs from "traditional" malware in that it is controlled via SMS rather than from a command & control (C&C) server on the Internet. A common aspect of Android malware is the use of a command and control server that tells the malware what to do next and acts as a repository for any captured passwords or banking information. The current information about this malware show that it can execute a range of commands including uploading the phone's current location, sending SMS messages, and even recording phone calls. It works by intercepting SMS messages sent to the...

181000 records compromised in Utah Security Breach Utah health officials said that hackers who broke into state computers last weekend stole far more medical records than originally thought, and the data likely includes Social Security numbers of children who have received public assistance. The Utah Department of Health has been hacked. 181,604 Medicaid/CHIP recipients have had their personal information stolen. 25,096 have had their Social Security numbers (SSNs) compromised. What is particularly threatening about this attack is the fact that the stolen records included personal information including client names, addresses, birth dates, SSNs, physician's names, national provider identifiers, addresses, tax identification numbers, and procedure codes designed for billing purposes. " We understand clients are worried about who may have accessed their personal information, and that many of them feel violated by having their information compromised ," said Michael Hales, deputy dir...